Arc Welding: In his Gyromite/Stack-Up review, R.O.B. tried to kill him. In his Predator review, a Predator tried to kill him. The Monster Party review revealed that both incidents are connected to the Evil Gamer.

He complained about the fact that Nintendo supposedly never said anything about the whole real SMB 2 thing in America even though it was all over Nintendo Power when Super Mario All Stars was released as a major selling point of that game, and it was even mentioned before that, in a feature on the history of the Super Mario Bros. series Nintendo Power ran during the lead up to the launch of the SNES (and its launch pack-in title, Super Mario World).

In his Kool-Aid review, where he killed the Kool-Aid man for constantly destroying his wall. Yeah, it doesn't sound like much, but the fact that he killed a character for doing what he's practically known for. He's the Kool-Aid man, of course he's going to do that!

IG couldn't get into Ubisoft's E3 2011 conference, so what's his response? Blow up their office with a fake special effect.

When he releases remastered versions of old videos, he'll explain the sexually explicit jokes, such as when a masturbation joke went from "Uhh, that doesn't look quite right" to "Wow, way to jack off, cheerleader pervert!"

In the Monster Party episode, where at the beginning, Chris explains that lots of people have been coming to his door asking for directions to the big Halloween Party that he isn't even invited to, and the whole gag keeps happening throughout the course of the episode.

The Face Palm running gag from his Kirby's Epic Yarn video. When he does it, he adds a voice and caption to make sure audience knows what he's doing. He does this again in his Marvel vs. Capcom 3 review, but doesn't add the voice and caption.

After calling R.O.B. "ROB-o-Cop" after RoboCop, he proceeds to show both names in text in case audience didn't get the pun the first time.

One of his complaints against Contra Super C is the cheat code for extra lives doesn't give out as many as the code in the original Contra (whereupon he stops the review to announce he's falling back on his Game Genie).

He complained that the Resident Evil 5 amateur setting is still too difficult and actually asked "Why couldn't they make the easy setting easier?"

Let's See You Do Better: Inverted in his Watchmen film review when he said "If I was directing this movie I would cut an hour off and put the flashbacks in linear order." This makes it painfully obvious that he never read the book. He did admit that with "I'm not really sure how the plot was revealed in the comic book," though.

Also in his Zombies Ate My Neighbors review when he said the title should have been Monsters Ate My Neighbors because it had enemies other than zombies.

A variation of this is found in his Super Mario Bros 2 review, when complaining the star is too slow. Not only did he do it in the area where it would naturally take the most time, but he actually slowed down the footage.

In his review of Aladdin for SNES, when Abu ate some apples at the end of a level, he edited it to make it look like the apples were actually deducted from your ammo. He admitted in the comments that he passed the flying carpet stage on his first try, so he purposely killed himself to make the stage look harder than it really is.

He said that once you get to level fifty in the Kool-Aid man video game, the enemies move impossibly fast. But it's obvious he sped up the footage; pay very close attention and you'll see that the Kool-Aid man is moving exactly as fast as the Thirsties even though he said they get faster. You'll also be able to note that the sound effects get higher and the timer at the top started moving extremely fast.

In his Sonic Unleashed review, when complaining about the cut scenes and hub worlds, he walked up to the Ice Cream Man NPC, talked to him and whined "Great, more shit from the Ice Cream Man". He tried to pass this off as the game's fault.

In his Cool Spot review he said that you have to collect 30% of the red tokens to open the cage. But when he's finishing the game and he opened the final cage it clearly showed he's only got 29%. Even worse, later on when he finished the game for the 'proper' ending it's the same footage as before.

Revisiting the Roots: The Irate Gamer, since the jump to HD, had an ongoing storyline. Close to the end of the storyline, a non-sequential episode on the Die HardNES game was released, and it was closer to the earlier videos (the only remnant from the storyline is a cameo appearance of the Gamer's R.O.B. sidekick). Word of God is that after the storyline is finished, there will be more episodes like this.

Happens quite a bit, but his Odyssey review particularly stands out. He complains about age-old technology being "rare" and doesn't think about what looked good in 1972, calling the console very crude in design. He also says "It might have been possible that they were trying to market the Odyssey as a board game rather than a video game."

This continued in his complaints about the Fairchild Channel F, saying that every game on it sucks.

Self-Deprecation: Bores made a joke in which he called for his friends to play the 2-player mode of Contra, and was met with dead silence.

Soundtrack Dissonance: His theme song, as well as the music he used in his video trailers, are rather serious and "epic" considering they were for a video game review show. A good example is his review Home Improvement review trailer, which has a deadly-serious orchestra and Ominous Latin Chanting.

In his review of TMNT: Turtles in Time ReShelled, he said that when updating something, some elements have to remain the same, or else "they’ll be shitting all over the source material. Right, Michael Bay?" Cut to a photo of Michael Bay photoshopped into his room going, "Uhh..."

He has one towards his haters in the Top 5 NES Games video. When he mentioned that he liked using Game Genie while playing Kid Icarus, he brought up that "some elite gamers" will likely criticize him for cheating and responded "You know what? Fuck 'em!"

He has another on his haters in his Cool Spot review, saying, "These idiots can't even make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich without ruining it!"

It's unclear, but one of the "characters" shown in peril in his RoboCop review appears to be dressed up to look like AVGN.

A notable example is at the end of his Mission: Impossible video. He says he's really pissed off, his head is spinning and he's losing his mind. Yet he sounds completely normal.

The Teaser: The "Temple of Doom" scene in the Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom game review is treated as such in the DVD version (the early episodes were produced before the Title Sequence was introduced). Subsequent episodes sometimes have their own teasers.

He says "pretty much" in pretty much every review. And that's pretty much it.

Just about any time he announces a new video/review, that announcement will begin with something like "a lot of people have asked me to review this game," or "a lot of people have asked what the next review will be."

You see the cracked pipe labeled "Gas Line"? Bores showed it again and again and again to make sure you get the joke. From the same episode, whenever the scene switched between timelines, Bores reminded us what game he's playing. He shouldn't be doing this since it gives the idea that he's aware there are two timelines going on, which he shouldn't.

In his video on Microsoft's E3 2011 conference, most of the video is highlights from the conference and the last minute of the video is him recapping said highlights he just showed us.

"Fustrated" is one of his egregious mispronunciations, along with "emenies," "a-static," "fustrating," etc. He is also prone to double negatives ("they don't even make no sense at all", "I can't take it no more!"), and grammar failure ("Most hardest games for the NES"). Other times he uses the wrong word, like saying "infamous" for "famous" and "predecessor" for "successor."

In The first episode of Chris And Scottie's Road Trip, he says "designation" instead of "destination".

A strange in-universe example of this in his Dante's Inferno review. He warned parents watching (just go with it) that this game might not be for kids due to some nudity. So, it wasn't the immense bloodshed, the religious symbols, or the screams of the damned that warned him it wasn't for kids, it was the digital tits. Seemed like he didn't know about the ESRB.

In his God of War III review. He dedicated a good chunk of this already short review telling "parents" that this game had violence, harsh language, and sex. It's Rated M for Mature, that meant it wasn't intended for people under the age of 17.

Wrap Around Background: He noted this in his review of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom before throwing the cartridge away in frustration. The cartridge then reappeared on the opposite side of the screen.

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